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<blockquote data-quote="AloeSvea" data-source="post: 2042235" data-attributes="member: 150927"><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Yes indeed. I get my C-peptides tested fairly regularly, since reading about it a few years ago, due to my being severely insulin resistant, and to varying degrees for over 30 years - so I reckon I am owed! (I need to know what is happening with my insulin to find out if f my experiments are working for me, as in keeping my insulin levels as normal as possible as opposed to too high.) But, at one of my practices I do have to justify it. so in the course of my own research I found out roughly how much an amputation costs (NZ$100,00 - surgeons earn well!, and includes the whole kit and kaboodle of equipment and aftercare), and I say, "and kidney dialysis is not cheap" - which is an understatement I think. (I found it harder to put a price tag on that one.) The nurse taking my blood did nod sagely the last time I had to say it. I find it disgusting that I am having to justify a test that is a crucial part of the diabetic picture - for all kinds of diabetics, with how much I would cost otherwise, when it is really the cost of misery and pain and too early death to organ failure which should be considered, not dollars and cents. But there you are. </span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AloeSvea, post: 2042235, member: 150927"] [FONT=Arial]Yes indeed. I get my C-peptides tested fairly regularly, since reading about it a few years ago, due to my being severely insulin resistant, and to varying degrees for over 30 years - so I reckon I am owed! (I need to know what is happening with my insulin to find out if f my experiments are working for me, as in keeping my insulin levels as normal as possible as opposed to too high.) But, at one of my practices I do have to justify it. so in the course of my own research I found out roughly how much an amputation costs (NZ$100,00 - surgeons earn well!, and includes the whole kit and kaboodle of equipment and aftercare), and I say, "and kidney dialysis is not cheap" - which is an understatement I think. (I found it harder to put a price tag on that one.) The nurse taking my blood did nod sagely the last time I had to say it. I find it disgusting that I am having to justify a test that is a crucial part of the diabetic picture - for all kinds of diabetics, with how much I would cost otherwise, when it is really the cost of misery and pain and too early death to organ failure which should be considered, not dollars and cents. But there you are. [/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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